[stfassisi]

The Church has always honored as blessed martyrs those whose blood is shed out of hatred of Christ and his Church

And it very telling that the US congress congratulated the communist for the overthrow of the Romanovs in the same fashion our government congratulated the muslim brotherhood for their election victory

[annalex]

...in the same fashion our government congratulated the muslim brotherhood

To our American defense, the Congress at the time probably operated on the unsophisticated presumption that monarchies were all evil. Hopefully now we know better. I believe in progress.

I am not convinced congratulating the Muslim Brotherhood was unequivocally bad. It is perhaps improvident. Remember, that when a popular uprising overthrows a dictator, like Mubarak was, there is a reason to presume the emerging from the elections government as legitimate. Certainly, there is no symmetry between monarchy and a military dictator propped up by bayonets, no matter who paid for the said bayonets.